Fall on your knees
a novel
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Author
Publication
1998 - Scribner Paperback Fiction, New York, NY, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
127,000 words, Guess
Page Count
508 pages
Identifiers
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- ISBN-100743237188
- ISBN-139780743237185
- Library of Congress Control Number96034186
- OCLC Control Number48856311
- Better World Books9780743237185
- Open LibraryOL18382123M
Classifications
- LCCPR9199.3.M2985
- LCCPR9199.3.M2985 F35 1997
Description
The story of a jinxed family, a catalog of rape, incest and death. James Piper abuses his daughter, atones by sending her to New York to study singing while he goes to war, she returns pregnant, dies in childbirth when her mother opens her to save her twins. One of the twins dies, mother commits suicide, the second twin contracts polio while being baptized in a creek by an aunt, the aunt is raped by James. A first novel set in Nova Scotia early this century.
First Sentence
A LONG TIME AGO, BEFORE you were born, there lived a family called Piper on Cape Breton Island.
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